Chanting For Collective Peace | Lokah Samastah

Ok,

So this is a beautiful kīrtan chant,

Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu,

Which more or less means,

May all beings everywhere be happy and may they be free from suffering.

And we're going to do this in the call and response kīrtan fashion.

And so I'll do the entire verse and then I'll leave space for you to go ahead and do it back.

I'll do the entire verse,

Do enough space for you to do it back.

And if I ever say bolo,

It just means repeat after me.

And so really quickly we'll just go over the words just so you kind of feel them in your body,

Feel them in your spirit.

So it's loka samasta sukhino bhavantu,

So you can repeat that after me,

Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu.

So again I'll chant first and then you'll repeat it back and we'll go for a little while and just close your eyes,

Don't worry about getting any notes right,

Don't worry about getting any words right.

Just allow yourself to feel the prayer,

Feel the chant in your spirit and in your body and you'll really feel that collective prayer for no more suffering,

For peace,

For happiness radiate out from you when you are done.

So take a deep breath in,

Take a nice big exhale.

Let's do that one more time,

Big breath in,

Big exhale.

Beautiful,

Thank you so much for chanting with me today,

Hope you'll come back.

Notice how you feel.

Much love,

Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu.